Conservative Activist Claims Harris Plagiarized ‘Smart on Crime’ Book Passages

A right-wing activist on Monday accused Vice President Kamala Harris of plagiarism over passages of a book she co-authored more than a decade ago.

Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute think tank, wrote in a blog post that Harris pulled “verbatim language” from uncited sources in passages for Smart on Crime, co-authored with writer Joan O’C. Hamilton in 2009.

“There is nothing smart about plagiarism, which is the equivalent of an academic crime,” Rufo wrote. “The publisher, as well as the sitting vice president, should retract the plagiarized passages and issue a correction. There should be a single standard—and Kamala Harris is falling short.”

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